The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-03-17

v Senator Lane moved to amend By
d striking out profit, amusement or Other
purposes" and insert gambling" where
e it refers to pool, pigeon hole and Other
tables. Adopted.
4 Senator CLAIBORNE offered to amend Sc
5 as to permit a minor TO enter saloon
when in the discharge of his duty,
} Lost.
The senate refused to pass the bill to
third reading.
Yeas-Senators Allen, Armistead, Bell,
Davis, Douglass, of Grayson county;
Frank, Harrison, Jarvis, Mcdonald, Sim
kins, Woods. Total, II.
Nays-Senators Abercrombie, Burgess,
Burney, Calhoun, Camp, Claiborne, Glass
cock, Gregg, Houston, Knittle, Lane Mac
manus, Stinson, Terrell, Upshaw, Wood
ward. Total, Is.
Administrations Douglass, of Jefferson
county; Garrison, Pope. Total, 3.
Senator Terrell moved to reconsider
the vote. Carried.
Senator Armistead moved to strike out
all of section l, increasing the license on
liquor. AdOpted-yeas, %; nays, 3.
Senator Lane moved to so amend as to
! permit music in the saloons. Adopted.
The bill then passed to third reading.
Yeas, II; nays 6.
House bill amending the game law
passed.
House bill to establish the manner of
ascortaining the boundary lines of coun-
ties passed to third reading with amend
ments.
House bill to provide the order in
which defendants charged with the same
crime shall be tried passed.
House bill to punish the prevention of
running of railroad trains passed.
Sub house bill dispensing with juries in
inquests passed.
House bill changing the time of holding
courts in Navarro county passed.
Adjourned until 10 o'clock to-day.
MONDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
House was called to order by the speak |
err Prayer by the chaplain.
House bill No. 1854, to validate the acts |
of the state land board, was considered as
the pending business.
Mr.. Browning offered an amendment |
providing, in effect, that all sales and |
leases of the lands mentioned in the bill |
made by the board upon which purchasers
or lessees have paid the principal, interest
or rentals, as provided in the act of A pril
II, 1888, be and the same are hereby vail
dated, and the rules and regulations made
by the board, with reference thereto, be
declared binding.
Mr.. Bell, of Cooke, reiterated his oppo-
sition to the bill.
Mr.. Strong stated that there were about
1900 purchasers of these lands interested
ia the acts of the board.
Mr.. Browning argued that the land
board, though having good intentions,
had gotten off on the wrong track, and i
that Innocent purchasers should be pro
tected by validating the acts of the board.
Mr.. Parker offered a substitute for the
bill and amendment, and to ratify and
confirm the action of the land board, and
providing that the sales of land to actual
settlers, where the lands were sold at
some other place than that provided by
law, and the rules of the board be ratified ;
and validated
The substitute was adopted, but was 1
reconsidered and defeated. |
The Browning amendment recurring t
Mr.. johnson offered the following as a t
Substitutes: That all sales or leases
made at other places than those provided t
by law shall not on that account be held
invalid, but the same shall be held valid as
if made at the proper place,
The question was argued by Mr.. Camp,
Mr.. Moore of Travis, and others in about
the same way as on Saturday.
Mr.. Payne argued that it would be as
proper to validate all the acts of the
board as some of them, and without some
investigation and report of committee
in the matter, he was constrained to OPP
pose the whole business, and made
motion to table accordingly. Lost.
Yeas, A; nays, 40.
The johnson substitute was adopted by
a vote of So to SO, and as thus amended
the bill was engrossed.
The house considered Mr.. Prendergast's
local option bill, substitute house bill No.
257, amending the law prohibiting the
unlawful selling of Intoxicating liqnors,
and defining and prohibiting what are
known as "blind tigers"
Mr.. Garwood offered an amendment |
striking out the imprisonment feature in
the penalty. Lost.
Mr.. Bard of Lamar, offered amend
meut prescribing blank form for physi- |
clans giving certificates for liquor for
patients, to be known as physicians alco-
hollc prescriptions.
Mr.. Moore of Travis, offered as sub
stitute, which Mr.. Biard accepted, more
elaborate amendment covering the same
ground. 1t requires stub prescription
books to be gotten from the comptroler's
Office, and records kept for the informa-
ton of the county commissioner.
Mr.. Camp offered amendment that the
prescription shall be writt,n n.
Adopted, and the Moore amendment
was adopted.
Also an emergency amendment.
The vote on final passage of the bill
resulted-Ayes, sc. Nays, 16.
Resolution was offered by Mr.. Dolen
that the future speeches of members be
limited to five minutes each and to only
one speech by any member on the asme
subject,
Mr.. Richardson offered a resolution in
viting Hon. B. j. Northrop of the Ameri
can Forestry congress to address the
House this evening.
House adjourned till o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The house, in afternoon session, took
up substitute senate bill 2l9, general
land bill, for the sale and lease of the free
school, University and asylum lands, and
to prevent their unlawful enclosure, with
a substitute house bill offered in its place
by the house committee. The general
features of the bill have been nubIished